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...n the fixed income from their nest eggs and Social Security benefits to last through retirement. According to Federal Trade Commission data, 1.1 million frauds were reported in 2017, with 21% of the fraud victims sufferi...

...IFTS, NOT PAYMENTS TO ANYBODY. WH The new for currency for consumer fraud is now gift cards. According to the Federal Trade Commission, gift cards have replaced money wires as the number one way for scammers to collect. ...

...ify them of a warrant nor do we take any payments of any kind over the phone. To report phone scams, call the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP or visitftc.gov/complaint. You can also report a scam by calling th...

...counseling. Or see updates on fraud alerts visit www.aarp.org/fraudwatchnetwork. To file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about scams or unwanted telemarketing, go to www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov. To file a...

Some 348,000 people reported about impostors, with 19 percent saying they suffered a financial loss.
In terms of age, younger people were fleeced more often but, when successfully scammed, older people lost more money.

...and the Virgin Islands. “If your sister who lives in another state gets her card before you, don’t fret,” the Federal Trade Commission explained in a new alert. Since the cards are going out in waves, “your card may arri...

...ian practices have been consolidating and the number of hospital mergers has been high. A recent study by two Federal Trade Commission economists, he said, looked at the merger of six physician practices in Pennsylvania ...

... mailboxes at home. "In a nutshell, an ounce of education is worth a pound of prosecution," Wallace says. The Federal Trade Commission has taken the word-of-mouth concept to heart. At the October hearing, Daniel Kaufman,...

...cience documenting indoor tanning's links to cancer. But Berman's efforts backfired. Despite his efforts, the Federal Trade Commission eventually cracked down on his clients for deceptive advertising and the Food and Dru...

... sort of password—a way of making sure that people are really who they say they are. As the authors of a 2008 Federal Trade Commission report investigating SSN security wrote, “These entities, in effect, treat the SSN as...

... for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484.
If you’ve been targeted by these scams, you should also contact the Federal Trade Commission and use their “FTC Complaint Assistant” at FTC.gov. Please add "IRS Telephone Scam" ...

...could make jobs harder to get for people who don't conform to rigid formulas.
Julie Brill, a Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission who has examined companies' use of data, says algorithms designed to reduce bias "iro...

...ugust 11, 2014
The online marketing community has been buzzing about native advertising ever since the the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted an native advertising workshop and issued a consumer warning. In Austr...

...aw requires the three major credit reporting agencies to provide you with one free report per year. Visit the Federal Trade Commission's website, https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action, or call 877-322-8228 toll...